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Sportspersonship Behaviours: An Exploratory Investigation of Antecedents.
No full textThe current study proposed a path model of sportspersonship using self-determined
motivation as mediating variable and sport orientations as distal determinants.
166 competitive level athletes divided into two groups according to the type
of sport (individual and team sports) completed a questionnaire composed of the
following sections: socio-anagraphic data, Sport Orientation Questionnaire, Sport
Motivation Scale, and Multidimensional Sport Orientation Scale. ANOVA analysis
and path mediational model were applied. Results showed a main effect of gender
and type of sports on sport orientations, and the indirect effects of sport orientations
on sportspersonship, as well as the mediational role of self-determined sport motivation
within this model. Additional research with a larger sample and other constructs
will be needed in order to confirm, and possibly extend, the present findings.
However, this study could be considered as a starting point for educational
approaches especially for young sportspeople
Road safety and user behaviour
No full textThe traditional hypothesis about road safety and traffic psychology is that road user behaviour depends on risk. In this paper the authors verify the theory of risk homeostasis, i.e. that road user behaviour depends on the difference between the perceived risk and the risk budget. The paper aims at 1. finding out what the perceived risk factors are and what the risk budget depends on; 2. foreseeing the consequences of the road user behaviour. In the final part an analysis of accidental data controls the proposed hypothesis. The conclusion is that the risk R consists of two different forms of risk: external risk Re, depending on the external reality, and internal risk Ri, depending on the unconscious reality
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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